Life Clock Copyright (C) Moose O'Malley, ---------- September 2007. +===========================================================+ | T A B L E O F C O N T E N T S | +===========================================================+ | * Introduction | * Inspiration for this Program | * The Future | * Program Estimates Warranty | * Reviews / Awards / CDs | * Freeware Information | * Warranty | * Amendment History | * Contacting the Program's Author +===========================================================+ Introduction : -------------- Life Clock for Windows 3.1, 3.11, 95, NT, 2000, XP, etc. This program is free software. Anyone - any person, any company, or any business - can use this program for free. No fees or payment is required. See "Freeware Information" below. This program displays : - the current date / time, and, - the amount of time you might have left to live (in years:days:hours:mins:secs format) based on the settings you enter in the Setup Screen (found via the File | Settings menu). I wrote this program because I read about a new watch that displays the amount of time you might have left to live, and which sold for $140 (Australian dollars). (See "Inspiration for this Program" below). I have not seen this watch, but my program reproduces the functionality described in this article. The aim of this program is that it makes you realise that time is passing and it attempts to scare you into living. i.e. don't delay, start living and achieving your goals today ! Thanks to my brother, Frank, for inspiring me to write this program, and for finding and faxing me the article below. Inspiration for this Program : ------------------------------ Sunday Morning Herald, Feb 16, 1997. (Melbourne, Australia). (Typed in by Moose O'Malley, with all words, syntax, punctuation, etc intact as per the original article). (Thanks to my brother, Frank, for finding and faxing the article to me). THE FINAL COUNTDOWN TIME waits for no man - so the saying goes. But if you like the idea of counting the passing hours, the new Timisis digital clock may hold a fascination. What makes this timepiece unique is that rather than displaying the time, it shows you how many minutes and seconds you can expect to have left in your life. As its default setting, the clock presumes men will live to 75 and women 80. But if you are super fit - or in desperate need of a workout - you can reconfigure the setting accordingly. According to its US inventor, Chip Altholz, "the Timisis clock scares you into living". The Clock also has the facility to display 150 motivational messages (if you buy the clock you will probably need them). Priced at $140 [Australian], the Timisis clock will only be available through specialist stores. The Future : ------------- In the future, I would like to add a screen that enables you to enter your health / life style details (such as whether you smoke, whether you are overweight, gender, how often you exercise, etc), and have the program estimate estimate your life span based on this. I saw a quiz (in a women's magazine) based on this years ago, but, regretably, I didn't keep the article. If anyone has a quiz that can help determine your life span, please email it to me. Other things I could do are : - Add the display of a random motivational message / tip each time the program is run. - Add in sounds / warning messages when various stages of your life are reached. Such as when the program thinks you have 1 year to live. - Add in a birthday greeting each year. - and so on. Program Estimates Warranty : ---------------------------- This program shows how long you might have to live. The program is in no way accurate, and there are no accurate algorithms in use to guess your life span. Please do not rely on this program to estimate your life span. Do not blame me if you believe this program and spend all your money believing you might soon die, but then live for another 20 years. Also, do not blame me if the program suggests you might die in 20 years and you die today. Reviews / Awards / CDs : ------------------------- None so far. Freeware Information : ----------------------- This is free software. Anyone - any person, any company, or any business - can use this program for free. No fees or payment is required. However, if you find the program useful, then please consider making a PayPal donation to support my efforts. (To make a donation, please run the program and select the "About" option under the Help menu, and then click the PayPal link on the "About" screen). Warranty : ---------- This software and the accompanying files are provided "as is" and without warranties as to performance or merchantability or any other warranties whether expressed or implied. The user assumes the entire risk of using this software. If you do find any faults with this program, email me and let me know. Amendment History : -------------------- Vers Date Description 1.0 28-Feb-97 First Public Release. 1.1 04-Apr-97 Add in extra date / validation / error handling code. 1.2 25-Apr-97 Fix a problem with date validation experienced by several USA users. 1.3 16-Jun-97 Save settings automatically on Windows 95 shutdown (Registered Users only). Start Minimised if set in Shortcut / settings (Registered Users only). Improve application startup - size and position form before user sees it. Add in Menu items for viewing my Shareware Catalog, the Readme file, and the Registration Form. Display the current time in red on a black background to make it look a bit like an LED clock. 1.4 11-Jan-98 Fix a long standing but very elusive problem to do with "DateEncode" errors which occured on some machines under some conditions. Once I could replicate the error, it was reasonably straight forward to get a workaround for what was another bug in Delphi. (2,832 lines of code.) 1.5 25-Sep-98 Add in the display of your age / time remaining in "years:days:hh:mm:ss" format. Add in the option to seperate date output by ':' or 'y', 'd', 'h', 'm', and 's'. Add in autosizing of the main window to handle long date outputs. (3,214 lines of code.) 1.6 01-Feb-2001 Store the INI settings file in the program's directory, rather that in the Windows' directory - there's enough crap there already ! ;) Fix an old bug in Borland Delphi / Windows NT to fix NTDLL.DLL errors on closedown which occured on some Windows NT configurations. Ensure that the user's currently selected ShortDate in Windows has the century in it so that dates are handled correctly. If the user doesn't have the century in the ShortDate format, this program will add it in for its own use. (6,579 lines of code / comments.) 1.7 17-Apr-2001 Add in support for "Big Fonts" and "Other Sized Fonts" - with these Windows resizes the windows automatically - but only sometimes and it doesn't always do it right, so now I make sure my main window is the right size before doing any scaling, etc. i.e. I make it fit the component(s) that extend the furthest right and furthest down the form. See the Start Menu -> Settings -> Control Pannel -> Display -> Settings Tab -> "Advanced" button -> "General" tab for your PC's settings in this area. Bring program up-to-date with my latest code libraries. (7,212 lines of code / comments.) 1.7b 20-Nov-2002 Bring the program up to date with my latest code libraries. (31,498 lines of code / comments.) 1.7f 3-Sep-2007 This program is now FREEWARE - see "Freeware Information" above. If this program was not downloaded from my Home Page, then it is possibly an old version. The latest version of this program is available from my WEB page - see below. Mike "Moose" O'Malley ____________________________________________________ Moose's Software Valley - Established July, 1996. WEB: http://move.to/moose ____________________________________________________